Preparing for Senior Leadership - Wednesday 7 May 2025 (Online)
This course is for: Aspiring Deputy Heads, Directors of Studies, Assistant Heads and other senior leadership roles.
Description
Course Outcomes – by the end of the course delegates will have:
- Learnt about senior leadership roles and their opportunities and challenges
- Understood their own development needs and career pathways in preparation for a senior leadership role
- Learnt about the application, interview and recruitment process
- Developed insight into making an effective transition to a senior leadership role
Course Outline
- The nature of Senior Leadership
- What the Head is looking for, both in appointing a new senior leader, and in working with their Senior Leadership Team
- Making the transition – how do you prepare?
- Reflection: how ready are you, and what might be your next steps?
Course Programme:
Time |
Session |
15.30 |
Welcome and introduction
Speaker: Jill Berry |
15.35 – 16.00 |
The nature of Senior Leadership
Speaker: Jill Berry |
16.00 – 16.30 |
What the Head is looking for, both in appointing a new senior leader, and in working with their Senior Leadership Team
Speaker: Jill Berry |
16.30 – 16.40 |
Break |
16.40 – 17.40 |
Making the transition from Middle Leadership to Senior Leadership
Speaker: Ravi Kothakota, Deputy Head: Pupils & Designated Safeguarding Lead, Emanuel School
|
17.40 – 18.10 |
Preparing to make the leap
Speaker: Jill Berry |
18.10 – 18.30 |
Reflection: how ready are you, and what might be your next steps?
Speaker: Jill Berry |
Speaker Biography:
Jill Berry taught for thirty years across six different schools in the UK, state and independent, and she taught adults to GCSE and A level in the evenings for several years. She was a head for the last ten years of her time in schools. Since 2010 she has completed a doctorate, researching the transition to headship and written a book about it: 'Making the Leap - Moving from Deputy to Head' (Crown House, 2016) https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/publications/making-the-leap (also now available as an audio book); and carried out an extensive range of leadership development work. She has given a TEDx presentation on the subject of ‘Take a Second Look: Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Others’: https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_berry_take_a_second_look_bring_out_the_best_in_yourself_and_others and she has published four novels. See her author page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B01JSM9UXI
Jill is an advocate for the opportunities presented by social media for networking and professional development, on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jillberry102, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jill-berry-a5a55a21/ and blogging about education at https://jillberry102.blog/